Title of Proposal
Abstract
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) has steadily been working to improve its digital preservation infrastructure over the past four years. In 2013, with funding from a NEH Preservation Assistance Grant, consultants Tom Clareson and Liz Bishoff conducted a digital preservation readiness assessment and jump started USM’s education on the topic. Since then, USM has added geographically distributed backups, manual fixity checks, manual metadata logs, and manual file format migrations to its arsenal with varying degrees of success. The influx in needed manpower and technical infrastructure precipitated a financial commitment from the university and the purchase of a robust digital preservation system. Using the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s (NDSA) Levels of Digital Preservation as a guide, this session will follow the progression of USM’s digital preservation efforts over the past four years from education to implementation. Attendees will learn how to evaluate an institution’s digital preservation readiness using the NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation, and come away with ideas for lost cost, high impact ways to improve their own digital preservation efforts.
Type of Proposal
Presentation
Proposal Category
Implementation, General, General
Keywords
digital preservation, planning, metadata, fixity, file formats
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
La Beaud, Elizabeth (2016). "Digital Preservation Efforts at USM," Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management. https://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/2016/day2/6
Additional Files
ElizabethLaBeaudBio.pdf (89 kB)Bio
20161116Session1_915AM.mp4 (255515 kB)
Download Video
Included in
Archival Science Commons, Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Computer and Systems Architecture Commons, Data Storage Systems Commons, Digital Communications and Networking Commons, Management Information Systems Commons, Technology and Innovation Commons
Digital Preservation Efforts at USM
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) has steadily been working to improve its digital preservation infrastructure over the past four years. In 2013, with funding from a NEH Preservation Assistance Grant, consultants Tom Clareson and Liz Bishoff conducted a digital preservation readiness assessment and jump started USM’s education on the topic. Since then, USM has added geographically distributed backups, manual fixity checks, manual metadata logs, and manual file format migrations to its arsenal with varying degrees of success. The influx in needed manpower and technical infrastructure precipitated a financial commitment from the university and the purchase of a robust digital preservation system. Using the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s (NDSA) Levels of Digital Preservation as a guide, this session will follow the progression of USM’s digital preservation efforts over the past four years from education to implementation. Attendees will learn how to evaluate an institution’s digital preservation readiness using the NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation, and come away with ideas for lost cost, high impact ways to improve their own digital preservation efforts.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will learn how one institution made strides to advance digital preservation efforts in an academic setting, how to evaluate an institution’s digital preservation readiness using the NDSA’s Levels of Digital Preservation, and come away with ideas for lost cost, high impact ways to improve their own digital preservation efforts.